Phoenix Festival Playbill 2025 (1) - Flipbook - Page 52
WHO’S WHO: THE ARTISTS
REID FARRINGTON (Director)
Theater director, new media artist, stage designer, 昀椀lmmaker. Recent work: Dora Maar, Mendacity (昀椀lm, NYITFF 2023), BrandoCapote, CasablancaBox (commissioned by HARP @ HERE
Artistic Residency, 2 Drama Desk nominations in Outstanding Projection Design and Unique
Theatrical Experience), The Return (commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Tyson vs. Ali (PS 122 Coil Festival), Reid Farrington’s A Christmas Carol, which mixed live performers with video projected characters from 35 different 昀椀lm versions of Dickens’ tale (Art
House 2019, Abrons Art Center), The Passion Project, based on The Passion of Joan of Arc
(PS/K2 festival in Copenhagen, Denmark, 3LD, tours to Budapest, Vancouver, Regina, SK),
Gin & “It”, based on Hitchcock’s Rope (Wexner Center, Columbus OH). Residencies: Mercury
Store, Art House, Wexner Center, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, 3LD Art & Technology
Center, Abrons Art Center. Support: NJCOA, NYSCA, NYFA, Jerome, ETC, Franklin Furnace,
Greenwall, Axe-Houghton, MediaTHE. From 2001 – 2008, Reid was a technical artist for The
Wooster Group where he designed video & created hardware/software systems for the integration of video and sound for Hamlet, Poor Theater, To You the Birdie!, Who's Your DADA!?,
House/Lights and Brace Up! touring with TWG to Moscow, Paris, Berlin, Istanbul, Amsterdam,
Melbourne, Brussels, Athens.
SARA FARRINGTON (Book & Lyrics)
NYC/NJ playwright, co-founder of Foxy Films theater co. w/ Reid Farrington. MFA: Brooklyn
College with Mac Wellman. Publications: The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring
Avant Garde (53rd State Press), A Trojan Woman, Mickey & Sage (both @ Broadway Play
Publishing, Inc), Leisure, Labor, Lust (Next Stage Press). Sara’s play CasablancaBox was commissioned as part of HARP @ HERE and nominated for two Drama Desk Awards. Sara's work
has been called "dazzling" by The New Yorker and "brave, almost foolhardy" by The New York
Times. Sara's play new Look Out will be workshopped as part of the Deep Space Residency
at NaCL, Fall 2026. Her plays have toured internationally, most recently A Trojan Woman, her
version of the Euripides, which toured to Athens, Belfast, London, Luna Stage in NJ and then
premiered at Powerhouse Theater @ Vassar in July. Other favorite plays include Dora Maar,
BrandoCapote, Mendacity (昀椀lm), The Return, Near Vicksburg and The Rise & Fall of Miles &
Milo (FringeNYC Award for Outstanding Playwriting). Dr. Uncanny Presents: Moreau '96 marks
her 昀椀rst musical. She feels privileged to be working with David, Zoe, Abe, Kevin, Alissa, Sara L.
and Reid. Subscribe to her cathartic Substack @TheaterIsHard & visit www.ladyfarrington.com
ALISSA FINN (Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Mrs. Skip The Warlock)
Alissa Finn is an actor, singer, and graduate from the Royal Academy of Music's MA in
Musical Theatre program with the Global Talent Visa to live and work in the UK. As a
freelance singer, Alissa has performed in jazz venues throughout London and New York and
has recorded at Abbey Road Studios for 昀椀lms such as Beetlejuice 2. As a cabaret artist, she
